August Muench

Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Research field: Astronomy / Astrophysics / Space Science - Stars
Star Formation, Protostars, Star Clusters, Molecular Clouds, Initial Mass Function, Astroinformatics, Online Astronomy, Digital Libraries, Data Curation, Data Archives

Publications

Journal Article (15)
- Jan Forbrich, Achim Tappe, Thomas Robitaille et al. (2010) DISENTANGLING PROTOSTELLAR EVOLUTIONARY STAGES IN CLUSTERED ENVIRONMENTS USING SPITZER -IRS SPECTRA AND COMPREHENSIVE SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION MODELING, 1453-1477. In The Astrophysical Journal 716 (2).
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ApJ...
- K. R. Covey, C. J. Lada, C. Román-Zúñiga et al. (2010) THE AGE, STELLAR CONTENT, AND STAR FORMATION TIMESCALE OF THE B59 DENSE CORE, 971-988. In The Astrophysical Journal 722 (2).
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ApJ...
- Forbrich, Jan, Lada, Charles J., Muench, August A. et al. (2009) A SPITZER CENSUS OF STAR FORMATION ACTIVITY IN THE PIPE NEBULA, 292-305. In The Astrophysical Journal 704 (1).
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJ...
- Rathborne, J. M., Lada, C. J., Muench, A. A. et al. (2009) DENSE CORES IN THE PIPE NEBULA: AN IMPROVED CORE MASS FUNCTION, 742-753. In The Astrophysical Journal 699 (1).
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJ...
- Baxter, Eric J., Covey, Kevin R., Muench, August A. et al. (2009) THE DISTANCE TO NGC 2264, 963-974. In The Astronomical Journal 138 (3).
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009AJ....
- K. L. Luhman, A. A. Muench (2008) New Low‐Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs with Disks in the Chamaeleon I Star‐Forming Region, 654-662. In The Astrophysical Journal 684 (1).
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ...
- August A. Muench, Charles J. Lada, K. L. Luhman et al. (2007) A Spitzer Census of the IC 348 Nebula, 411-444. In The Astronomical Journal 134 (1).
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007AJ....
- August A. Muench, Charles J. Lada, Jill M. Rathborne et al. (2007) The Nature of the Dense Core Population in the Pipe Nebula: Core and Cloud Kinematics from C 18 O Observations, 1820-1831. In The Astrophysical Journal 671 (2).
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ApJ...
- Charles J Lada, August A Muench, K L Luhman et al. (2006) Spitzer Observations of IC 348: The Disk Population at 2-3 Million Years, 1574-1607. In The Astronomical Journal 131 (3).
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AJ....
- K. L. Luhman, John R. Stauffer, A. A. Muench et al. (2003) A Census of the Young Cluster IC 348, 1093-1115. In The Astrophysical Journal 593 (2).
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ApJ...
- See all
Book Section (2)
- A., Muench, K., Getman, L., Hillenbrand et al. (2008) Star Formation in the Orion Nebula I: Stellar Content, 483. In Handbook of Star Forming Regions, Volume I: The Northern Sky.
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008hsf...
- C. R., O'Dell, A., Muench, N., Smith et al. (2008) Star Formation in the Orion Nebula II: Gas, Dust, Proplyds and Outflows, 544. In Handbook of Star Forming Regions, Volume I: The Northern Sky.
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008hsf...

Awards and Grants

Mar 2010

Explaining Multi-wavelength Star Formation with the WorldWide Telescope View website
Nov 2007

Constraining the Stellar Initial Mass Function Through a Broad Spectrum Study of Star Forming Region View website
May 2007

Constraints on the stellar initial mass function from Spitzer View website

Biographical Information

I am an astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA, where I am employed by the US Virtual Astronomical Observatory. My work includes investigating the practices of data publishing and citation in astronomy, supporting researcher's use and reuse of the astronomy's extensive digital archives through social user groups and documentation, and studying the birth and early evolution of stars in our local Galaxy. My collaborators include Alyssa Goodman (Harvard), Jonathan Fay (Worldwide Telescope team @ Microsoft Research), Alberto Pepe (Harvard), Chris Erdmann (Wolbach Library), and the Smithsonian-NASA ADS team.

I use Mendeley for my own reference collection and as a possible tool for supporting data publication, citation and reuse.